Color By Numbers

Color by numbers.
Here is your cubbyhole.
What's your color?
Cross-index your life.
Box yourself in.

1. Pretty pink, passionate purple,
   scatological orange.
   Atypical? or merely humdrum?
2. Racing stripes.
   Tumultuous blue, yellow, and red.
   Exasperating rebel.
3. Old Mother Hubbard lived in a
   cupboard.
   Brown, and brown, and brown,
   and brown-blue.
   Washed out.
   Washed up.
4. Prismatic.
   Violet, green, gentle blue.
   Eye glasses and soft white hair.
   Chocolate chips
   and knitting.
5. Baby blue, pink and yellow.
   Baby chick.
   Baby's breath.
   Flimsy.
   Color by number.
   Here is your cubbyhole.
   Box yourself in.

1986

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Published under my maiden name: Barbara Muller

Chrysalis
Robert McQueen High School
Reno, Nevada
Volume 1, No. 4
June 1986

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